Freight house

Having a protected area for temporary freight storage improves efficiency by allowing railroads to accommodate customers' delivery and pickup schedules without leaving boxcars idle at loading points and destinations.

Railroad employees in the outbound or receiving freight house take freight in through the doors on the driveway side; and inspect it, weigh it, and handle billing and marking before moving it into boxcars on the house track.

Both functions are combined in a single freight house which is the more common installation in smaller communities.

[1] Most freight houses are single-story structures, but some have been built with multiple levels where land values are high.

[1] Freight houses which were once among the larger structures in their communities have found a variety of uses when no longer needed for their original purpose.

This freight house has a typical arrangement of loading doors adjacent to the house track.
This freight house with a small agent's office in the near end of the structure has two doors for loading trucks.
This town has a small freight house in the background near the passenger depot in the right foreground.
Distance from the track made load transfer less convenient at this very small freight house left of the passenger depot.
This multipurpose building is a freight house on the left end and a passenger depot on the right end.